AWS Contracts in the East Midlands

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 30 28
Rank change year-on-year +14 -2 -12
Contract jobs citing AWS 58 61 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.57% 5.84% 5.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.16% 20.13% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 51 67
10th Percentile £356 £425 £356
25th Percentile £393 £484 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £613 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% +22.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £525 £700 £575
90th Percentile £738 - £638
England median daily rate £550 £590 £590
% change year-on-year -6.78% - +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.75 - -
Median hourly rate £30.50 - -
75th Percentile £33.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £72.75 £56.25
% change year-on-year -27.84% +29.33% -3.02%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 206 303 444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 26.89% 29.02% 31.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 231 302
10th Percentile £164 £181 £163
25th Percentile £311 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% +13.07%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £519
90th Percentile £663 £700 £618
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 17
10th Percentile - £14.57 £14.40
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.19 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.63 £18.86 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +10.26% +14.03%
75th Percentile £27.50 £24.43 £21.00
90th Percentile £32.10 £26.48 £26.90
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for AWS in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire -1 23 £450 -35.71% 30
Northamptonshire +26 22 £489 -6.86% 6
Leicestershire +15 11 £488 +21.88% 13
Lincolnshire +11 1 - - 5
Derbyshire -6 1 £500 -4.76% 16
AWS
England

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.62%) JBoss
2 4 (6.90%) Confluence
3 1 (1.72%) Apache
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.72%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.03%) Azure
2 10 (17.24%) SaaS
3 9 (15.52%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (10.34%) OpenShift
5 5 (8.62%) GCP
6 3 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.17%) Serverless
6 3 (5.17%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.72%) GitHub
8 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) Relational Database
2 7 (12.07%) RDBMS
3 5 (8.62%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (6.90%) Data Lake
4 4 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.90%) MySQL
4 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.17%) Big Data
5 3 (5.17%) Pentaho
5 3 (5.17%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.72%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.72%) Power BI
7 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (15.52%) JIRA
2 5 (8.62%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (8.62%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (8.62%) Git
2 5 (8.62%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.62%) SonarQube
2 5 (8.62%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (8.62%) TeamCity
3 4 (6.90%) JMeter
4 3 (5.17%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.45%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.72%) JUnit
General
1 15 (25.86%) Finance
2 9 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Legal
4 6 (10.34%) Banking
5 5 (8.62%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Advertising
7 1 (1.72%) Law
7 1 (1.72%) Marketing
7 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (20.69%) Developer
2 11 (18.97%) Architect
3 9 (15.52%) IT Manager
3 9 (15.52%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (13.79%) Delivery Manager
4 8 (13.79%) IT Services Delivery Manager
4 8 (13.79%) IT Services Manager
4 8 (13.79%) Service Delivery Manager
4 8 (13.79%) Service Manager
5 5 (8.62%) AWS Architect
5 5 (8.62%) AWS Solution Architect
5 5 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.17%) ForgeRock Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.07%) RESTful
2 6 (10.34%) RAML
3 5 (8.62%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (8.62%) OpenAPI
3 5 (8.62%) Spring Boot
3 5 (8.62%) Swagger
4 4 (6.90%) LDAP
4 4 (6.90%) REST
5 3 (5.17%) JSON
5 3 (5.17%) OAuth
5 3 (5.17%) OAuth2
5 3 (5.17%) OpenID
5 3 (5.17%) React
5 3 (5.17%) SAML
6 2 (3.45%) CSS3
6 2 (3.45%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.45%) Jest
6 2 (3.45%) Next.js
6 2 (3.45%) NgRx
6 2 (3.45%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.90%) Virtual Team
2 3 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.45%) IoT
4 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.69%) Windows
2 9 (15.52%) Linux
3 8 (13.79%) Apple iOS
4 5 (8.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.76%) Migration
2 15 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (24.14%) DevOps
4 12 (20.69%) Service Delivery
5 10 (17.24%) Decision-Making
6 9 (15.52%) Business Analysis
6 9 (15.52%) People Management
6 9 (15.52%) Service Management
7 8 (13.79%) Architectural Design
7 8 (13.79%) Change Management
7 8 (13.79%) Information Security
7 8 (13.79%) IT Governance
7 8 (13.79%) ITSM
7 8 (13.79%) Performance Metrics
7 8 (13.79%) Problem Management
7 8 (13.79%) Service Delivery Management
8 7 (12.07%) CI/CD
9 6 (10.34%) Agile
9 6 (10.34%) Mentoring
10 5 (8.62%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 18 (31.03%) Python
2 16 (27.59%) Java
3 8 (13.79%) Swift
4 7 (12.07%) SQL
4 7 (12.07%) TypeScript
5 6 (10.34%) C#
6 5 (8.62%) Perl
7 4 (6.90%) Scala
8 3 (5.17%) BeanShell
8 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.45%) PHP
10 1 (1.72%) C
10 1 (1.72%) C++
10 1 (1.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (12.07%) SC Cleared
1 7 (12.07%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.17%) AWS Certification
2 3 (5.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (5.17%) Degree
3 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) GDPR
1 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) Docker
2 5 (8.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.17%) OpenAM
3 3 (5.17%) OpenIDM
4 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (22.41%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.34%) Terraform
3 5 (8.62%) Kibana
3 5 (8.62%) Progress Chef
4 4 (6.90%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
1 8 (13.79%) Okta
2 5 (8.62%) AppDynamics
2 5 (8.62%) Red Hat
2 5 (8.62%) Splunk
3 3 (5.17%) ForgeRock
3 3 (5.17%) Informatica
3 3 (5.17%) Talend
4 2 (3.45%) Databricks
4 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.72%) Google
5 1 (1.72%) JDA
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle
5 1 (1.72%) VMware